Comments on: My assumption is that this is the morning International, the AMTK train that passed thru Bayview around 0900 for Chicago from Toronto. But it sure doesn’t look like one. Second unit is VIA 6901, an LRC-2. I have accounted for VIA #71 this morning, so this leaves me no other guess. Nice quiet morning, after all it is a Tuesday, and thats the way I liked it. Those LRCs were real lemons. Endless problems with them resulted in the whole fleet of 6900-6930 lasting about 20 years. The 6901 pictured was built 1980 (as was the AMTK) retired 2001 and sold to Industrial Rail Services in 2003. Photo shot using B/W 400 ISO medium format (2×3 inch negs) film in a graflex roll film holder in back of a 4×5 Speed Graphic. All that fumbling around when today one can just grab the digital and shoot!!

By: dhaisell

dhaisell — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 01:54:05 +0000

When did the International switch to the northern route?

By: awmooney

awmooney — Wed, 02 Dec 2020 01:45:52 +0000

Thanks Jacob, and of course to “GO564″ for information. I’ll have to dig out some other old International images to check out the consists.

By: Jakob Mueller

Jakob Mueller — Wed, 02 Dec 2020 01:32:17 +0000

Those ex-Amtrak “LRC-1″ cars were used on the International from 1988 to 1994. Two of the cars had an “AmCafe” style of configuration – the only two LRC service cars ever built.

By: GO564

GO564 — Wed, 02 Dec 2020 00:04:23 +0000

That would definitely have been the International, based on the LRC car windows- they had the ex-Amtrak equipment on that train with the split window sills. Awesome catch with the LRC loco and Amtrak!

By: Driver8666

Driver8666 — Tue, 01 Dec 2020 17:49:38 +0000

OIS has made that infinitely easier as well. Especially on phones.